![]() She pays him for his work, but counters his assumptions about women (he tells her that the tinker’s itinerant lifestyle is no life for a woman) by telling him that she could do his job just as well.īut Steinbeck’s ‘The Chrysanthemums’ focuses on the latent sexual symbolism within the flowers blooming and the imagery that Elisa uses to describe their growth is clearly intended to suggest an erotic subtext. Ashamed by her behaviour, she finds him two saucepans to fix. ![]() The tinker then brings the conversation back to his trade, subtly hinting that he won’t be able to eat supper tonight unless he makes some money. She has become very eager and excited and in her passion she almost touches the man’s trousers as she kneels in front of him. She gives him instructions for how to grow the flowers, for him to pass on to the lady. Elisa allows the man to come into the yard so she can give him the pot. She had expressed an interest in growing some, and Elisa readily offers to place some sprouts into some soil in a flowerpot, for the tinker to give to the lady when he visits her. The tinker wins his way into Elisa’s good books by claiming that he knows a lady further down the road whose garden lacked chrysanthemums.
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